{"id":271142,"date":"2025-11-19T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271142\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:28:09","slug":"hampshire-women-paul-prichard-given-two-year-deal-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271142\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire Women: Paul Prichard given two-year deal as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hampshire Women have appointed former Essex batter Paul Prichard as their new head coach.<\/p>\n

The 60-year-old has agreed a two-year-deal and takes the role permanently after being in charge on an interim basis last season.<\/a> <\/p>\n

In April, Prichard took over from Charlotte Edwards, who departed the county to become England Women’s head coach.<\/a><\/p>\n

He led the side to the final of the One-Day Cup as Hampshire won nine out of their 14 group matches to top the table.<\/p>\n

“It’s a privilege to lead the group for another two years,” Prichard said after signing his new deal.<\/p>\n

During his playing days, Prichard was best known for his time at Essex, where he played from 1982-2001.<\/p>\n

He played more than 300 first-class games, scoring more than 16,000 runs, and won the County Championship four times.<\/p>\n

“Paul did an excellent job last summer,” Adam Carty, regional director of women’s cricket, added.<\/p>\n

“He’s been an important part of the group since he joined the women’s team in 2022 as a batting coach and we have full confidence that he will get the best out of the squad as we aim for silverware over the coming seasons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire Women have appointed former Essex batter Paul Prichard as their new head coach. The 60-year-old has agreed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-271142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}